George Kalligeros Wins April's Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future Award!

Business Description

Pushme Bikes are disrupting the on-demand delivery industry with quick electric bike conversion and battery swap stations. Self-employed delivery couriers convert their conventional bicycles to electric in under 5 minutes using Pushme Bike’s innovative device. Low battery alerts are sent directly to users’ smartphones, telling the rider to head to the nearest battery swap station (pushpod), located within local convenience stores, to switch their depleted battery for a fully charged one, a process that takes 10 seconds. Pushme Bike’s two products, a plug & play bicycle converter and a network of accessible pushpods, aim to tempt couriers away from petrol scooters and towards cleaner, equally efficient, transport options.

Commiserations to Dicky Davies (Crushed Protein), Haydn Kirkman (Airshare Transfers), Yanik Nyberg (Seawater Solutions) and Tom Vose (Enni) who were shortlisted but did not win this time and are encouraged to reapply.

Shell LiveWIRE International’s Top Ten Innovators has come to a close and what a competition it has been! We’ve celebrated innovative entrepreneurs from all over the world and brought them together for a grand final in Kuching.
Maciek from Get Wonky (who recently rebranded as Flawsome Drinks) pitched his start-up which saves unwanted fruit from landfill and uses waste-reducing packaging. He was a runner up in the Retail Supply Chain category, winning $10,000 to develop his business!
Meanwhile Josh from Metronome Energy took home 1st prize in the Energy Solutions category, receiving $20,000 to push his innovative technology start-up to the next level!
Well done to all the entrepreneurs who took part, what a way to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week!
https://go.shell.com/2DnSMRC

Posted on Nov 15 2018 07:29am

Voting is now open for our latest Smarter Future Award! Here’s your chance to show your support for a young entrepreneur, and you have five innovative start-ups to choose from!
So, who will win your vote, Lorenzo Conti (Crover), Thomas Farrugia (Beta Bugs), Johnson Fernandes (Equiwatt), Harrison McDonough (Agrihance) or Isabella West (Hirestreet)?
https://go.shell.com/2Q0ctpi

Posted on Nov 14 2018 07:38am

The importance of energy storage has been brought into the spotlight in recent years, especially as a key component of renewable energy systems. Carlton Cummins, our 2016 Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year, recognised the need for energy storage solutions and saw potential in batteries that had already been used, and the result was Aceleron! It’s been a remarkable few years for Carlton, get to know the clean-tech entrepreneur giving batteries a second life in this article from Shell: https://go.shell.com/2DiE8ex